also found that 41% of Americans wouldn't fly on a Max plane for at least six months.
But now that the jet is ungrounded, airlines are looking to get more in their fleets as quickly as possible. The pandemic has airlines undoubtedly looking to take advantage of the jet's cost-efficiency while Boeing and leasing companies are likely offering attractive pricing to clear a backlog filled with canceled orders. or jets that were built but lost their original customer.
By trading the Airbus planes for the Boeings, Alaska gets closer to the all-Boeing fleet that it had before 2016. The Airbus jets were always outsiders in the Alaska fleet, interlopers in a "proudly all-Boeing" family that came as the product ofThe Seattle-based bought a larger presence in Los Angeles and San Francisco through the sale to become the West Coast's hometown airline.
But as they weren't Boeing, it was evident they wouldn't last long and the airline had been quietly shedding its Airbus fleet throughout 2020, as
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